ODI live events podcast

In partnership with CARE International, our expert panel leads an interactive session on ‘how to measure the hard to measure’ in development. The event explores and compares learning from three projects tackling these challenges, based on four dimensions of ‘hard to measure’ aspects of development interventions.

What is it like to travel to Europe over land and sea in order to secure a future for yourself and your family? Why are so many people willing to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean? What are their hopes and fears? And how is Europe responding? Our expert panel unpacks these questions, drawing on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who have reached Europe in recent years. The...

Gayle Smith discusses the future of humanitarian aid and multilateralism in an era of populist politics and global volatility.

This event explores the opportunities and challenges of improving accountability through working with non-state actors.

UN Special Representative for International Migration Louise Arbour delivers the keynote speech at this #GlobalChallenges debate.

This event explores how the digital revolution in public finance can work for developing countries.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, joins ODI in conversation to share insights from his new book, A world of Three Zeros.

Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg delivers a keynote speech on UK’s role in a changing Europe and the world.

Kate Osamor MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, delivers a keynote speech on Labour’s vision for the UK’s international development policy. The speech is followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by ODI’s Executive Director Alex Thier, and a networking reception.

This event, co-hosted by UNESCO and ODI, reflects on the role and responsibilities of governments to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education.

The panel discusses the current humanitarian and development challenges in the Lake Chad region, the Boko Haram crisis and state-level coordination.

As humanitarians we spend a lot of time debating what needs to change in our sector and why. But  do we look enough at how that change happens?

Our panellists reflect on the root causes of the Rohingya crisis and what needs to happen next to solve the immediate and long term situation.

Disasters Conference- Morning Introduction by ODI Global

Disasters Conference- Morning Panel by ODI Global

Disasters Conference- Afternoon Panel by ODI Global

Disasters Conference- Afternoon Keynote by ODI Global

Former secretaries of state reflect on the history and future of the UK's Department for International Development.

This event presents a new narrative to broaden the debate around economic development, and the ways in which traditional aid delivery helps or hinders it.

This event, drawing on the World Food Programme's (WFP) 2017 global stocktake of food assistance, brings together voices from across academic, NGO and donor communities. Our experts debate and discuss what we are already doing and, critically, what we need to do as a community to meet the global demand for food assistance and realise food security for all.

President of the Rockefeller Foundation and former Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, joins ODI in conversation on the major global challenges of our time – and his vision of how we can tackle them.

What are the risks health workers face when responding to crises? What needs to be done in the future to better protect them? Ahead of World Humanitarian Day and the memorial event for humanitarian aid workers at Westminster Abbey, join us to discuss how we can better address this issue.

This event features the launch of Future Fragmentation, a major publication from the Commonwealth Secretariat with contributions from ODI, that explores the changing nature of global trade in global value chains and the relative position of Commonwealth small states.

At this event the Canadian Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, Marie-Claude Bibeau delivers a keynote speech, offering her reflections on Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy to promote gender equality and help empower all women and girls.

At this event hosted by CDKN and ODI, experts discuss progress in planning for NDC implementation across seven countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Critically, the discussion focuses on how the NDCs are being mainstreamed into national development processes – so that climate change is not an isolated concern of environment ministries but owned across governments and beyond.